Carole Currie on Dr. Lewis Rathbun turning 100

9:47 PM,
Oct. 5, 2013

Dr. Lewis Rathbun

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Carole Currie
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If women all over town recognized her husband through the years, Betty Rathbun understood. Her husband, Lewis, delivered their babies.

He delivered 5,000 babies in all through his long career as an obstetrics/gynecology physician, about 3,900 of them in the Asheville area. Betty knew that a woman never forgets the doctor who delivered her babies.

Dr. Rathbun will soon be able to look back over 100 years of life adventures on his approaching birthday. He can truly know that he has changed lives and made the world a better place for as many as he could. ...